Dissertation - Michael Becker

syllable of the CVCVC words were replaced with the corresponding high vowels u, ü. Thenouns that were used are presented in (30).The non-final consonants were chosen such that the resulting nouns all sound plausiblynative, with neighborhood densities equalized among the stimuli as much as possible.(30) CVC CVCC CVCVC−high +high −high +high −high +high−back gep yiÙ telp ginÙ heveÙ Ãisipp/Ùtk−round+round−round+round−round+round+back dap n1Ù panÙ d1rp y1yap ma.1Ù−back köÙ züp yönÙ kürp bölüÙtürüÙ+back poÙ tup solp munÙ konupguyup−back pet hit zelt Ùint niket gevit+back fat m1t hant S1rt ya.at p1s1t−back söt Ãüt gönt nürt sölütbünüt+back yot nut Ãolt bunt Ùorutmuyut−back vek zik helk tink mesek perik+back Ãak p1k vank n1rk tatak ban1k−back hök sük sönk pürk nönükdüyük+back mok nuk bolk dunk zorukyulukFinally, 36 fillers were included. All the fillers ended in either fricatives or sonorantconsonants. To give speakers a meaningful task to perform with the fillers, two lexicallyspecificprocesses of Turkish were chosen: vowel-length alternations (e.g. ruh ∼ ru:h-u‘spirit’) and vowel-∅ alternations (e.g. burun ∼ burn-u ‘nose’). Eighteen fillers displayedvowel-length alternations with a CVC base, and the other eighteen displayed vowel-∅alternations with a CVCVC base.All of the fillers were chosen from a dictionary of34